Italian Vogue–Five (Four) on the Black Hand Side!
By APOOO • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Thinking Out Loud •
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Models Featured: Liya Kebede, Sessilee Lopez, Jourdann Dunn & Naomi Campbell
APOOO WANTS TO KNOW …
Has anyone seen the Italian Version of Vogue featuring four Black Models?
Is anyone is familiar with any of these models (other than Naomi Campbell)?
Does anyone purchase American Vogue on the regular? If not, why?
Does anyone plan to purchase a copy of one of these covers?
Does anyone have a favorite cover?
Is anyone Is planning to purchase a copy of Naomi Campbell’s cover?
Better yet does anyone know why Naomi is allowed to continue to run amuck? Who thinks it’s because she hasn’t met her match yet…someone who could tap that behind and leave the scars behind to show that they had been there.
On the fashion front, do you think American Vogue will follow suit? Or, do you wonder why American Vogue hasn’t done something similar? Is it because many Americans don’t believe that black women are beautiful, and as such, that they can’t sell magazines with black women on the cover?
Thinking Out Loud…but Let’s Talk About It! Share your thoughts.
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Whew..I like them ALL but I guess if you force me to choose one, I like the first one. Im not planning to purchase any of them. I tell you what, I had a collection of Vouge from the 70′s that I finnaly gave away. I was a Vouge fanatic
Linda–you;re one of the few folks of color I know who read moreorless collected Vogues. I was turned on to them by my mom’s oldest sister and used to read them faithfully. Which is funny, given that I’m so not fashion-oriented. LOL.
I can’t remember the last time I actually picked up an issue of Vogue. It’s been several years.
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Shelia did you buy them regularly when you purchased them?
I can’t tell, who isn’t black??? Lopez? They all got a little color on ‘em. I haven’t read Vogue in 20 years. I graduated from F.I.T. (the Fashion Institute of Technology in N.Y.) a million years ago and we ate, breathed and slept Vogue. In my new world, I could care less.
Rhonda ALL of them are black (it’s the black edition of Vogue…hehe…).
Its about freakin time someone did it. I think America will think whoever is beautiful if the mags, and other mass media tell them who to think is beautiful. In this country we are so consumed by images in the media that we have allowed the media to dictate to us what beauty should or shouldn’t look like. I remember when big-butts were a no-no for a certain gruop of people, now having one is all the rage. Why? Because the media started focusing on behinds(a la J-LO and Beyonce, Serena Williams, etc). Folk with money and no butts are running to plastic surgeons to create on. There are even fitness mags dedicated to getting a nice big firm one.The thing is to persuade those who run the mags to start to change their tunes. If Italian Vogue can do it and it sells well(from what I have read they had to rush and print an extra 40,000 due to demand), I suspect at some point Black will be vogue again, even in America
Okay Raven I’ll keep hope alive in America…but in the meantime viva la Italiana!
xoxo